[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet

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gts:
> The bit about microtubules and so forth
> strikes me as way too convoluted.
> I would expect the truth of something so basic
> to be more elegant.

Damien:
> Basic? Insufficiently elegant? 
> How do you feel about vision? 

This reminds me of a couple of papers
by Giancarlo Ghirardi.
He (and Zeilinger, and De Martini) 
developed experiments to test how
quantum superpositions are resolved,
or 'collapsed', in the vision process.
There is just one paper on line:
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810028
Btw, Ghirardi also wrote 'Sneaking a look at 
God's cards" (Princeton U.P., 2004).
s.

'The Misanthropic Principle.
Our universe is precision-tuned
for an irritating humanity.'
(-gk)